Electronics360: "In 50 Years, Self-driving Cars Will be the Norm, Study Says"

The proven, undisputed heavyweight champion of passengers' safety is Japan's bullet trains, which have never suffered a single fatality in 54 years of operation.

Japan's bullet trains are all human controlled.

Silicon Valley's Autonomous Vehicles have been in testing mode only for a few months and have already killed several unfortunates who either bought into the Con Valley's self proclaimed, overhyped BS, or they were totally innocent bystanders.

When a driver of a bullet train or a car is tasked with their own and their passenger's safety they are extremely diligent about providing that safety. (With the obvious exception of drunk drivers etc who disregard all safety rules.)

When teenage Con Valley programmers and their egotistical bosses like Elon Musk have no skin in the game they have already proven they don't give a rat's ass about anyone's safety as they play their computer games with other people's lives.

This survey's authors and its participants have yet to understand that when safety is an individual concern it's paramount, but when it's a boardroom or a Con Valley CEO's ego concern, it's dispensable.

I'm sceptical that basing future predictions on a survey of the public is very scientific.

If in the 1960s the public was surveyed about flying cars it does not follow that they would now (50 years later) be a common occurrence.

As a driver the idea of self driving cars where the occupant do nothing more then plays games listens to music and an assortment of other actives scares me. You don't place an air plan in autopilot and then let the pilots go party with the passengers, so why allow the driver of a car moving at high speeds do this? I am a tech guy and I am not opposed to progress in the automotive sector I but think there should always be a driver in the drivers seat in case of an emergency. No mater how well we engineer our product failure at some point is inevitable.

Hi I'm a Mech. Eng. who worked on the battery-powered automatic "ULTra" vehicles installed at T5 Heathrow. It took us over 5 years to have the "safety Case" approved by the UK HSE and then only if the vehicles travelled in their own dedicated guideways separated from all other traffic, pedestrians, and animals. In addition our navigation and control systems had to show 3 levels of redundancy and we were forced to operate at 6 second headways and prove vehicles could be stopped safely in "brick-wall" lead vehicle stop conditions. Our max. speed was limited to 40kph.

For these safety reasons I believe full AV should never be allowed as proposed by Tesla et allia.